Victor has been leading the way for greater environmental responsibility in business aviation since we launched our industry-first carbon reduction programme in Europe in 2018. The following year we took the programme worldwide and, in July 2020, celebrated our first 12 months as the world’s first private aviation business to offset every flight by at least 200% as standard.
Following this benchmark, and as part of our ongoing commitment to transparency, we continue to publicly share our carbon impact reports on an annual basis. We take great pride in being the first private jet company to have our annual flights, emissions and carbon credits formally verified by a third-party auditor (Cooper Parry). These statements can be found at the links below.
Our chosen projects for our carbon credits, (purchased in partnership with Vertis and South Pole), have historically been natured-based and Gold Standard or Voluntary Carbon Standard accredited. We selected projects spread all over the world given our global flight coverage.
Victor is committed to defining a sustainable future for private aviation. We have revised our offsetting strategy as industry best practice continues to evolve, and from 1st January 2023 took the decision to cease our 200% offsetting programme following the success of our partnership with Neste. We believe this to be a positive step on our journey to net zero as we throw our efforts into driving awareness and education of the most credible carbon emission reduction solution available in aviation – Sustainable Aviation Fuel. To read more about the decision that we’ve taken, please read this letter from Victor co-CEOs.
Our Carbon Offsetting impact since 2020:
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